Books, Arts & Manners: Eisenhower Reconsidered

Eisenhower, Volume II—The President, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster, 750 pp., $24.95)

Life, which began at forty for U. S. Grant, was even slower getting under way for Dwight D. Eisenhower. At age fifty, a quarter-century after finishing West Point at the median of the 1915 class, he was anticipating three more years of staff duties before making colonel. The ensuing 29 years of achievement, prerogative, and world renown have been chronicled in two volumes by Stephen E. Ambrose. The second, under discussion here, has to do with the Eisenhower Presidency— so far the only Republican one besides Grant’s to compass two full terms.

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Eisenhower, Volume II—The President, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster, 750 pp., $24.95)

Life, which began at forty for U. S. Grant, was even slower getting under way for Dwight D. Eisenhower. At age fifty, a quarter-century after finishing West Point at the median of the 1915 class, he was anticipating three more years of staff duties before making colonel. The ensuing 29 years of achievement, prerogative, and world renown have been chronicled in two volumes by Stephen E. Ambrose. The second, under discussion here, has to do with the Eisenhower Presidency— so far the only Republican one besides Grant’s to compass two full terms.